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"I asked ChatGPT--"

Yeah well, I asked the wasps nest in my attic. It sang its answer so beautifully to me, but I am so very afraid of it. Perhaps it will soothe my itching soul...

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Canon itself usually associates memory issues and brain fog with the Lonely, aligning it with the 'disconnection' aspect of the Fear. Take episode 170, for example: Martin's experience there has Spiral aspects, sure, but the domain he's trapped in is attributed to the Lonely because the brain fog he's trapped in is isolating by design, not maddening.

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right now, he's prey.

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my intellectual tma comic

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Happy Brutal Pipe Murder Day to all those who celebrate 👁️🫦👁️🪈

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"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

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If I'm being honest I totally thought that TMA was gonna end with John sticking to his initial plan of speeding up the eyepocalypse and starving out the fears via the death of humanity, thereby bringing about the awakening of The Extinction and becoming it's first (and only) avatar.

Condemning himself to living, immortal and alone, in the desolate remains of a world he knowingly doomed, as a battery to the one remaining fear of his own creation.

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Jürgen Leitner? Stupid idiot motherfucking Jürgen Leitner god damn fool book collecting dust eating rat old bastard shithead idiot avatar of the Hello Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I’m assuming you’re alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn’t try too hard to stop reading; there’s every likelihood you’ll just hurt yourself. So just listen.

Now, shall we turn the page and try again?

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I want TMA to be made into a musical for just one reason:

The Jurgen Leitner rant as a Jon-Gerry duet.

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starting a collection

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My humble request.

More fics that explore the implications of John being "a deeply annoying child" and the fact that it was apparently normal for him to wander his hometown until sunset with no company or adult supervision as an eight-year-old (and potentially younger).

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People who draw Daisy with short hair are the backbone of this fandom.

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So the idea is that Martin's crush on John began after he made his statement about Jane Prentiss. It was spurred on by the uncharacteristic kindness John showed him - a. in believing him at all about the encounter and b. by immediately taking action to protect Martin (though letting him live in the Archives is, in my opinion, the least he could do and we were robbed of season one teaholding roommates content /hj). Martin's so used to being overlooked and has spent his whole life being treated without kindness that the idea of anyone going out of their way to help him in any capacity is novel enough to kindle feelings within him.

BUT. At this point in the series, John is still presenting himself as a distinguished and well-adjusted, if cynical and cranky, human being. Martin sees him as wholly unattainable and miles out of his league. And also as a huge arsehole, which is valid because John is a massive arsehole, at least this early on. So whilst he begins to harbour feelings at the beginning of his stay in the archives, Martin doesn't hold any ideals of reciprocation or plan to do anything about them; to him, it's just a fleeting crush. Something to indulge when he's feeling particularly sentimental, but otherwise he'll wait for the feelings to pass.

Then John asks him, as they're under siege by carnivorous worms and Jane Prentiss, if he's a ghost.

And Martin comes to a realisation; John isn't some unreachable paragon of academia and class (despite what his accent and general demeanour would attest). John's kind of a disaster, really, and the vulnerability he's shown throughout the attack works to bring Martin's mental image of him down to Earth. Down to attainability.

Suddenly the man he’s infatuated with is just another person that Martin could, reasonably, start a relationship with - outside of their immediate circumstances, that is. Sure, John's still his boss, but their workplace is already so unconventional that any potential power dynamic between them has been nullified by the looming threat of the supernatural. And their evil omniscient employer, though this doesn't really come into play until later in the plot.

That's when his crush develops into full-blown infatuation.

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Out of all the things in the Magnus Archives that could’ve terrified me, from the flesh eating to the bone contortions, nothing can be scarier than some creature you’ve been hiding under the blanket every night suddenly saying “the blanket did nothing”

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I've gotten so used to people drawing Martin ginger that whenever someone's interpretation of him isn't a redhead, it takes me a moment to recognise him. Which is silly because he doesn't even have a canonical appearance.